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Friday, December 9, 2016

Welcome at a new episode of Carpe Diem. This month I hope to inspire you through classical music from all ages and from all over the world. As I told you in one of my earlier posts this week I have a whole week full of compositions by female composers. I didn't know that there were female composers until I was doing my research for this month of Carpe Diem.

Today I have a nice piece of music composed by Cecilia Maria Barthélemon. There is not much known about her only the following:

Cecilia Maria Barthélemon (1767-1859) was an English singer, composer, pianist, and organist. She was the daughter of Maria Barthélemon, née Mary (Polly) Young, and François-Hippolyte Barthélémon. She published sonatas and occasional music.

A nice composition, it takes a bit time to listen to it, but I think it will inspire you ....

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until December 14th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode, Fantasy in g-moll for Cello by Fanny Mendelssohn, later on.

Thursday, December 8, 2016

It has taken a lot of time, but finally I have the opportunity to start with the judging for the "autumn"-kukai. As you all know the "autumn" kukai was the last kukai of 2016 and it ended at the beginning of November. So I am really late with this kukai. My excuses for that.

You can email your points, 3 for the best haiku, 2 for the second best haiku and 1 for the third best haiku, before December 20th 10.00 PM (CET), to our email address: carpediemhaikukai@gmail.com Please write judging autumn kukai in the subject line.

This kukai we had a few new participants and I am looking forward to the points for those newbies. Of course you can not vote for your own haiku.

You can find the anonymous list of submitted haiku above in the menu or by clickingHERE.Good luck !!

First this ... I hope to open the judging for our "autumn" - kukai later today. I am looking forward to the results and the selection you will made through your votes, but that's for later today.

Welcome at a new feature here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. In November all our prompts had to do with tanka and the Ten Tanka Writing Techniques by Teika ... so I think we have improved our tanka writing skills ...
Today I love to challenge you to write tanka on the theme "Winter Love" and share it through the linking widget as we do always here. You have one week to respond. Than after that week I love to ask you to point out one participant of whom you think he / she has written the best tanka. You have to email me the number of the link of whom you think is the best tanka.

You can email your choice, just one participant, to our email address: carpediemhaikukai@gmail.com Please write "tanka kukai winter love" in the subject line and tell me which linked poet you find best. For that voting you have only three days. I will keep you posted of course.

The winner of this tanka kukai will be featured in a new feature here at Carpe Diem which I have titled "Tanka Splendor".

What a joy to bring another nice piece of music to you. I hope this post will inspire you and maybe it will be the start of a new tradition, a new feature. Today I have a nice composition by Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini for you, again a female composer.

Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (1720-1795)

Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini:

Maria Teresa was born in Milan to Pietro Agnesi, an overbearing man in the lesser nobility. He provided early education for both Maria Teresa and her more famous older sister, Maria Gaetana, a mathematics and language prodigy who lectured and debated all over Europe while her sister performed. Maria Teresa was married to Pier Antonio Pinottini on June 13, 1752, and they settled in a district populated by intellects and artists, but eventually suffered severe financial ruin. Pinottini died not too long afterwards. Maria Teresa died in Milan in 1795.
Not much is known about Maria Teresa. Nothing is known of her education or teachers, and the dates of her compositions are largely unknown. Many of her compositions have been lost, although there are records of their existence. Her career was made possible by the Austrian Lombardy, which proved progressive and enlightened in women’s rights. The movement was more prevalent in Vienna and Dresden rather than her hometown of Milan, and Maria Teresa found more success and more appreciative audiences in these cities than in her birthplace.
Maria Teresa had several famous performances, perhaps the most famous on July 16, 1739, when famous French traveler Charles de Brosses was very impressed by her music. He was not the only one; the Count Gerolamo Riccati wrote several letters praising her compositions and musical talent. Another very famous performance was her theatrical debut, the Cantata Pastorale Il Ristoro d'Arcadia, in Milan at the Teatro Regio Ducal in 1747 where she dedicated her piece to various rulers of the surrounding areas of Saxony and Austria.
Agnesi would enjoy the patronage of Maria Theresia, holy Roman Empress and sovereign of Lombardy, and Maria Antonia Walpurgis, a gifted composer and contemporary.

A great composer I would say, it's a shame that I just recently found her compositions she deserved my attention earlier, but well ... I am not into playing classical music myself anymore, I only listen to it, maybe that's why I didn't know her music. Her music is not often played in our times and a great part of her oeuvre is gone.

I hope I have inspired you with this beautiful composition. This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until December 13th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode, Sonata in E, Op. 1/3 by Cecilia Maria Barthélemon, later on.

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Welcome at a new episode of Carpe Diem's month of Inspirational classical music. For the upcoming days I have selected music compositions by female composers from all times and from all over the globe. I wasn't aware that there were so many female composers who have created wonderful music. For today I have a nice piece of music for you created by Anna Bon de Venezia, Divertimento in D minor, Op. 3, no. 3.

Anna Bon di Venezia (1737-1767)

Anna Bon di Venezia:

Anna Bon (1737-1767) was an Italian composer and performer. Her parents were both involved in music and traveled internationally; her father was the Bolognese artist Girolamo Bon, a librettist and scenographer, and her mother was the singer Rosa Ruvinetti Bon. In her short life she composed wonderful music. The piece of music featured here today, Divertimento in D minor, Op. 3, no. 3, was composed in 1759. I think she created a beautiful composition.

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Welcome at a new episode of our CD feature in honor of Jane Reichhold, Universal Jane. In this special feature we honor the beauty and knowledge of Jane Reichhold, one of the best modern haiku poetesses.
Jane died at the end of July 2016 and she will be missed forever. She meant a lot for our Haiku Community, so therefore I created this special feature.

Not so long ago I wrote an obituary for Jane Reichhold to share her memory with the Dutch Haiku Circle, this obituary you can find at Haiku.nl (unfortunately it's only in Dutch).

During lack of time, a very busy week at the hospital, I only will share the music-video I had planned for today. I think you all know Vangelis, he is a modern classical composer, and I love his "electronic" music a lot. Of course there is no music better than the real classical music we have heard the last days here.

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until December 11th at noon (CET). I will publish our new episode, Divertimento in D minor, Op. 3, no. 3 by Anna Bon di Venezia, later on. For now .... have fun!

Monday, December 5, 2016

Welcome at a new episode of our daily haiku meme Carpe Diem. This month I hope to inspire you with classical music from all ages and from all over the world. Let the Music Inspire You ... with a beautiful piece of music by Mendelssohn.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)

Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy

Felix
Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 – 1847), was a German composer, pianist, organist
and conductor of the early Romantic period.A grandson
of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn was born into a
prominent Jewish family. He was brought up without religion until the age of
seven, when he was baptized as a Reformed Christian. Mendelssohn was recognized
early as a musical prodigy, but his parents were cautious and did not seek to capitalize
on his talent.Mendelssohn
enjoyed early success in Germany, where he also revived interest in the music
of Johann Sebastian Bach, and in his travels throughout Europe. He was particularly
well received in Britain as a composer, conductor and soloist, and his ten
visits there – during which many of his major works were premiered – form an
important part of his adult career. His essentially conservative musical
tastes, however, set him apart from many of his more adventurous musical
contemporaries such as Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Charles-Valentin Alkan and
Hector Berlioz. The Leipzig Conservatoire (now the University of Music and
Theatre Leipzig), which he founded, became a bastion of this anti-radical
outlook.Mendelssohn
wrote symphonies, concerti, oratorios, piano music and chamber music. His
best-known works include his Overture and incidental music for A Midsummer
Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the overture The
Hebrides, his mature Violin Concerto, and his String Octet. His Songs Without
Words are his most famous solo piano compositions. After a long period of
relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and anti-Semitism in the
late 19th and early 20th centuries, his creative originality has now been recognized
and re-evaluated. He is now among the most popular composers of the Romantic
era.

Again a composer whose legacy is awesome, but again he also died very young, as we have seen earlier this month. Must be the time in which they lived, but the most of the classical composers we have seen here now died very young.

I hope this music has inspired you. I couldn't come up with a haiku or tanka immediately, so maybe I will publish my response somewhat later.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until December 10th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode, Conquest of Paradise by Vangelis, later on.

Sunday, December 4, 2016

I hope you did like the composition of yesterday. Philip Glass is a great composer and he is from our time. This month we are seeking inspiration through the classical music by the greatest composers of all times and from all over the globe.

Today I hope to inspire you through a beautiful piece of music by Tchaikovsky. Who was Tchaikovsky? Let us take a look into history ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893), was a Russian composer of the late-Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular music in the classical repertoire. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally, bolstered by his appearances as a guest conductor in Europe and the United States. Tchaikovsky was honored in 1884, by Emperor Alexander III, and awarded a lifetime pension.Although musically precocious, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant. There was scant opportunity for a musical career in Russia at that time and no system of public music education. When an opportunity for such an education arose, he entered the nascent Saint Petersburg Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1865. The formal Western-oriented teaching he received there set him apart from composers of the contemporary nationalist movement embodied by the Russian composers of The Five, with whom his professional relationship was mixed. Tchaikovsky's training set him on a path to reconcile what he had learned with the native musical practices to which he had been exposed from childhood. From this reconciliation, he forged a personal but unmistakably Russian style—a task that did not prove easy. The principles that governed melody, harmony and other fundamentals of Russian music ran completely counter to those that governed Western European music; this seemed to defeat the potential for using Russian music in large-scale Western composition or for forming a composite style, and it caused personal antipathies that dented Tchaikovsky's self-confidence.

In this haiku I have tried to bring the sadness of the cherry blossoms scattered by the wind, but also tried to bring the joy of that wonderful scene of cherry blossom petals dance on the wind. While they dance they make the sadness go away.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until December 9th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode, string symphony no.4 in C minor by Mendelssohn, later on.

With this haiku she won not only the opportunity to create an exclusive CDHK e- book, but also being our featured haiku poetess of this month. Candy's weblog: Rhymeswithbug you can find by clicking on the link.

This is what Candy says about herself: "I am a reader, writer, and snapper of photos in my garden. The tiny creatures I find there are my muses".

I have already started to create her E-book which I have given the "work-title": footprints and I love to share here a few of Candy's haiku to inspire you.

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